At the Carrboro Board of Aldermen meeting Tuesday, board members asked Police Chief Carolyn Hutchison how she will deal with people who plan to protest at the proposed CVS site located at 201 N. Greensboro St. on Saturday.
“I think that it’s important to note that anyone who enters the property or stays on the property will be guilty of first degree trespassing,” she said. “Everything will be dependent on the behavior of the people who come to the event.”
The board also heard a report on traffic in downtown Carrboro from Transportation Planner Jeff Brubaker, who said the average daily traffic in Carrboro has been decreasing even while the town’s population has increased. Still, he said development projects could change that.
“We’ve all experienced congestion in downtown Carrboro, so we know that it’s there,” Brubaker said. “There’s reason to be wary, as the town moves forward, about potential traffic increases.”
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Members on the Orange Water and Sewer Authority board also presented the Draft Drought Response Operating Protocol, which would establish criteria for making decisions for conserving and purchasing water during extended droughts.
OWASA will now consider feedback from board members, some of whom found the protocol to be problematic because they said it emphasized purchasing water from places like Jordan Lake rather than conserving water.
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“It’s the intention of Carrboro to go through hard conservation measures before going to the extreme, purchasing water from Jordan Lake,” Alderman Sammy Slade said.
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